My Word: Sanctions and silver screen slanders – opinion

The article criticizes recent British sanctions on products from Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria, including Jerusalem, announced by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband. The author views this as a historical echo of attempts to silence Jews in their homeland, drawing parallels to the British Mandate era's ban on shofar blowing at the Western Wall. The sanctions, also supported by several other European nations and Canada, are seen as an attempt to influence Israeli elections and a de facto boycott of Israel, potentially encouraging Palestinian terrorism and harming Palestinian workers. The author argues that settlements are a result of war, not its cause, and that the move ignores the context of the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion. The article also criticizes the film "NAZA," which received an award at the Venice Film Festival, for allegedly misrepresenting Israel and the IDF, calling it a "character assassination of Israel."